Tablet



J. R. MORRISON TABLET Da. 24,A 1940.

Original Filed Nov. 18, v19435 patented Dee.24,`19409 i l i 'i 2,225,881,

TABLET John R. Morrison, Washington, D. C.

Original application November 18, 1935, Serial No.` 50,439, now Patent No. 2,166,016, dated July 11,` 1939. Divided and 4this application June 15 1939, Serial No. 279,357 r 2 Claims. (Cl. 282-22) My invention relates to improvements in taband 5 and the sheets of carbon paper 6 and 1 are lets for making an original and two carbon recarranged in stepped relation and secured toords, l I gether by a transverse strip 8 which is cemented The object oi my invention is to provide a tabthereon and necessarily cemented to each of the 5 let of this type in which an original is placed record sheets and the two sheets of carbon, thus 5 thereon and the same inserted in a typewriter or forming the tablet. The record sheets 2 and 4 recording machine in the usual manner of makhave their upper ends in the same plane while ing a carbon record and in which both the origithe record sheets 3 and 5 have their upper ends in nal and the two record sheets can be corrected in the same plane below the upper ends of the sheets 10 the usual manner without removing them from 2 and 4. The record sheets 2 and 4 are perforated 10 the typewriter. p at 9 and i0, while ther'ecord sheets 3 and 5 Another object of my invention is tofprovide a are perforated at Ii and i 2, so that all ot the tablet of this charactertin which the original and record sheets are of the` same length when sevthe two record sheets may be` simultaneously reered from the tablet. i

moved, leaving the two sheets of carbon in oper- The stepped end of the tablet allows its ready 15 ative position for the placement of another origi-` insertion in the typewriter. If a mistake is made nal sheet thereon to be again placed in the type-- and a correction is necessary on the original and writer and another original and two record sheets record sheets, it is made in the usual manner, made, this being repeated until the entiretablet as the upper end of the letterhead or original 2., 15 used up l Y is free and likewise the carbon sheets and the 20 A further object of my invention is to provide two record sheets, so that the original and carbon a tablet of this type in which the original and sheets are turned back or down to give access two record sheets may be gripped between the tothe record sheets so that the-necessary cor? fingers on one hand while the tablet is held by leCtlOnS may be made- 2r) the other hand and removed without touching or In using the tablet, the Original or letterhead 25 in any wey handling the carbon sheets. with its upper end even with the upper end of A still further object of my invention is to prothe Sheet 2 iS placedin the typeWIter.- The typvide a simple, cheap and effective tablet of this ing isdone and the tablet removed from the macharacter, having certain details of structure and Chine, the 10We1 end 0f the tablet iS gripped With combination of parts hereinafter more fully set 011e hand and the original and record sheets 2 30 UNITED@ me forth, and 4 are gripped between the thumb and fore- 1n the accompanying drawing; nger of the other hand and the record sheet 2 Figure 1 1s a plan View 0f a, tablet `embodying held betWeeIl the Original and record Sheet 4, S0 my invention; that the record sheets 2 and 4 aresevered from Figure 2 is an enlarged vertical 'sectional View the tablet, thus making two carbon record sheets. 35 of Figure 1, This leaves the carbon sheets 6 and 1 on record This is a, division of my application med Nosheets 3 and 5, so that the same operation can vember 18, 1935, Serial No. 50,439, Patent No. take Place'as Will be reediiy underStGOd- 2,166,016, dated July 11, 1939. l I claim: .4o Referring now te the drawing, l represents th 1` A tablet `comprising a plurality 0f record 4o tablet which is made up of any desired number SheetS Secured together at 011e end, every altel'- of record sheets, it being understood that I am nate Sheet terminating at the Same Point. While more or less umited te the number or sheets 1n th other alternate sheets terminate at a point a tablet as only a limited thickness of paper is beyond the free ends of the first-mentioned capable of being fed into a typewriter, and, theresheets, a carbon sheet secured above the upperfore, I am limited to a tablet of this thickness, a1-` most record sheet and terminating above the free theugh the number 0f record Sheets met' be deend of the shortest record sheet, a second carbon termined by the thickness of said record sheets.` sheet secured betweenthe second and `third rer-, 'The tablet l, as heretofore Stated. iS mede 11p of ord sheets and of the same length as the first a number oi.' record sheets and for the purpose of mentioned carbon sheet, each `record sheet hav- 50 illustration have shown iour record sheets 2, 3, ing a transverse scoring the same distance from 4 and 5. On top oi.' record sheet 2 is placed the their free ends, whereby two records are made on .sheet of carbon paper 6 and between the record two sheets having their free ends terminating at sheets Stand 5 is a second sheet of carbon paper the same poini'l and being the same distance from 1. The lower ends of the record sheets 2, 3, 4 the free ends so they may be gripped by the nn- 55 carbon sheets above the two record sheets.

2. A manlfolding tablet comprising a nrst series of record sheets one abovev the other, and

having their lower ends in stepped relation, Aa second series o( record sheets below the rst series of record sheets and having their lower ends in stepped relationin the same direction as the nrst series of record sheets, a'sheet of carbon l.

l0 paper between thelower record sheet of the first y l' 4masse-i gers and simultaneously removed, leaving the series and the upper record sheet of the second series, said record sheets and sheet of carbon paper secured together 1n tablet form, and all of said original and record sheetshaving transverse scoring the same distance' from the lower ends,

whereby all of the originall and record sheets will vbeof the same length when severed from the tablet.Av Y

JOHN R. MORRISON. 

